CHARLES VICTOR ALEXANDER PEEL

ENGLISH (1869-1931)

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT WITH ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS

"AN EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF WYOMING, U.S.A.

 IN SEARCH OF BIG GAME".  

TITLED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, CHARLES VICTOR ALEXANDER PEEL ON 

FRONT END PAPER, DATED 1903; INCLUDES 27 PAGES OF HANDWRITTEN TEXT 

AND 66 ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS.

CHARLES VICTOR ALEXANDER PEEL IS KNOWN FOR HIS EXPEDITIONS, SAFARIS, 

AND BIG GAME HUNTING IN AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA, ASIA, 

AND NORTH AMERICA. THIS UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS HIS 

EXPEDITION TO THE AMERICAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF WYOMING IN 1903.

ACCORDING TO THE BIOGRAPHY BY THE ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM, 

" CHARLES PEEL WAS CONFIDENT THAT BIG GAME HUNTING WAS THE BEST 

LIFESTYLE FOR YOUNG MEN IN THE LATE VICTORIAN EMPIRE...HE SET UP A 

PRIVATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY  AND ANTHROPOLOGY IN HIS HOME

IN OXFORD". SUBSEQUENTLY, HIS COLLECTION WAS ACQUIRED BY THE ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM (RAMM). 

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